@loved.by.Jesus: Yeah, they added optimizations for Python level method calls in 3.7 that were extended to C extension method calls in 3.8 by PEP 590 that remove the overhead of creating …

Jan 25, 2011 · To get a fully independent copy of an object you can use the copy.deepcopy() function. For more details about shallow and deep copying please refer to the other answers to …

I don't see why treating function like any other object should be a problem, in python. I do have the same need: decorated functions are passed to internal and external code which expect a …

I would like to make a deepcopy of a function in Python. The copy module is not helpful, according to the documentation, which says: This module does not copy types like module, method, …

Jul 14, 2017 · The latter is called to implement the deep copy operation; it is passed one argument, the memo dictionary. If the __deepcopy__() implementation needs to make a deep …

In Python, there is a module called copy with two useful functions: import copy copy.copy() copy.deepcopy() copy() is a shallow copy function. If the given argument is a compound data …

Nov 13, 2013 · Assignments in Python do not create new objects - an assignment merely establishes a binding between a [variable] name and an object. That should explain …

There is a snippet of code that I would like to copy and paste into my Python interpreter. Unfortunately due to Python's sensitivity to whitespace it is not straightforward to copy and …

The copy isn't byte-identical if the input has unusual line endings on systems like Windows. Why do you think that this might be easier to understand than a call to a copy function in shutil?

Feb 24, 2011 · So in order to modify a dictionary within an iteration, a copy of the dictionary must be used. Here is an example function that removes an element from a dictionary: